The vast playground was empty, with hardly any people in sight.
Only two petite figures circled the playground, one round after another.
After running three laps, even Joanna, who had good stamina, was exhausted. She sat on the ground, panting heavily.
Sweat rolled down her forehead in large droplets.
The hair and clothes of both girls were soaked with the sweat that had been heated out of their bodies.
"Baby, you... shouldn’t have run with me..." Aria panted breathlessly. Her beaming and delicate face was dripping with sweat.
She collapsed onto the lawn, lying motionless.
Joanna lay down beside her, wiped the sweat from her face, and laughed, "If it weren’t for getting back at them for me, you wouldn’t have had any conflict with those girls. Everything happened because of me. How could I possibly leave you alone?"
"Besides, I haven’t gone running in a long time. It’s quite refreshing to run once in a while."
"Hahaha, it is quite refreshing. I’m drenched in sweat."
The two of them lay on the grass for a while, waiting for their breathing to gradually steady before sitting up.
With a "ding" sound, Joanna’s phone rang.
She took it out of her bag and saw that Ashton Heath had sent her a message.
Ashton Heath: Did you move into the new dormitory? How’s the environment of the double room?
Joanna tapped on the screen and replied: I haven’t moved yet.
Ashton Heath answered immediately: Why not?
Joanna thought about it and replied: Something came up, and I got delayed.
Ashton Heath: What happened?
Looking at his reply, Joanna hesitated, wondering if she should tell him what had happened earlier.
Before she could decide, a hand suddenly appeared in front of her and snatched her phone away before she could react.
"Heartthrob, Joanna’s been bullied! Hurry over and help her!" Aria sent a voice message with Joanna’s phone in her hand.
"Aria, give me back my phone." Joanna reached out to take it back, looking helpless.
Aria returned the phone to Joanna after sending the message.
She stared at Joanna and said seriously, "Joanna, you have a heartthrob-like boyfriend, so you should use him in critical moments like these. It was not our fault today, but now the blame has fallen on us. The more I think about it, the angrier I am. Why was it them who started this, but we’re the ones who got punished?"
"You didn’t see it, but when we left the discipline office earlier, they had such a smug look on their faces. It makes me furious just thinking about it."
Just as Joanna got her phone back, Ashton Heath called.
He must have heard the voice message.
Looking helplessly at Aria, Joanna answered the call.
"Someone bullied you?" The man’s voice on the other end of the phone was low and cold, with a hint of danger.
"Uh..." Joanna felt embarrassed and didn’t know how to respond.
Actually, she didn’t seem to have been bullied.
After all, before the dormitory lady came to break up the fight, she had been fighting 1v2 and was not scared at all.
"Speak." The man’s voice grew heavier, and the dangerous aura in his words intensified.
Joanna decided to be truthful, "I fought back, and they got it worse than me, so I guess I wasn’t really bullied."
"You really got into a fight?"
She could tell that Ashton Heath’s tone was not very good, as if he was angry.